Friend

Originally published 15 January 2010

This was where the art went right - Jones is rendered perfectly in the first three frames. There are stock positions the cats tend to be drawn in, sitting, lying down, sleeping, walking etc, and it's good to get away from them now and again. Soon I would work out that I could render Jones fur as a zig-zag rather than a series of disconnected lines, and the problems with the pose in frame four would be solved.

Moth roast

We had halogen uplighters in our old flat in Tunbridge Wells. If you heard a 'Ftttzzzzt!' followed by a roasting smell, you could guarantee that the lamp had caught itself another victim. Every now and then we would have to upend the uplighters to pour out the charred remains into the bin.